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by Danny KEMP Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Hundreds of foreign royals and leaders are expected to attend the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London on Monday in one of the biggest diplomatic gatherings in decades. Westminster Abbey has space for around 2,000 people, so only heads of state and one or two guests have reportedly been invited to Britain’s first state funeral for six decades. A handful of […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Leaders from every corner of the globe briefly united Thursday in homage to Queen Elizabeth II, after the world’s longest-serving monarch died at her Scottish home at age 96. Tributes poured in — from countries she had ruled over to those she had been at war with, from tiny territories to the mightiest governments on the planet, and from centuries-old institutions to nations that had not yet been born when she […]
by Robin Millard © Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — On Remembrance Sunday, Prince Charles will lay Queen Elizabeth II’s wreath honouring Britain’s war dead as she watches on — a rare public symbol of the 91-year-old gradually scaling back her duties. It will be a milestone moment in the otherwise imperceptibly slow-motion process, as her eldest son, now 69, increasingly steps up on her behalf. Experts said Britain’s oldest-ever monarch would never consider abdication or […]
Reuters — A photograph by David Bailey showing Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II wearing a suite of sapphire jewellery given to her by her father King George VI as a wedding gift in 1947 was reissued by Buckingham Palace to mark the queen’s Sapphire Jubilee. Monday (February 6) marks the queen’s Sapphire Jubilee – 65 years on the throne, the first ever British monarch to have reached such a milestone. The 90-year-old queen acceded to the […]
by Katherine HADDON LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Theresa May on Wednesday will become the prime minister who leads Britain into talks to quit the European Union, after her last rival in the bid to succeed David Cameron pulled out. May became the only contender after Andrea Leadsom — who had stirred a storm for suggesting she was more qualified to be premier because she had children — abruptly quit the race on Monday. Cameron […]
